Kulungtfu-Yuanggeng-Tobo
Kulungtfu-Yuanggeng-Tobo is a Nuclear Trans New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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Kube (Hube) and Tobo, also Mongi, are a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. They are mutually intelligible and 95% lexicostatistically cognate. Dialects of Kube include Kurungtufu and Yoangen (Yoanggeng).
The Kube alphabet includes the letter Q with hook tail, ⟨Ɋ ɋ⟩.
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Words in Kulungtfu-Yuanggeng-Tobo
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | kiwa* | |
| eye | kiwa* | |
| ear | geca* | |
| nose | sere* | |
| tooth | cegl* | |
| tongue | eceraN* | |
| hand | meri* | |
| blood | sawa* | |
| bone | sigl* | |
| skin | sewira* | |
| knee | simiN* | |
| breast | namu* | |
| water | doku* | |
| sun | kaiwe* | |
| star | sikiru* | |
| stone | gokmea* | |
| mountain | boNa* | |
| tree | ik* | |
| leaf | hareN* | |
| night | siNi* | |
| dog | kacu* | |
| louse | imin* | |
| one | momakgu* | |
| two | rehek* | |
| I | ni* | |
| you | gi* | |
| we | nini* | |
| see | ni* | |
| die | humu* | |
| come | ere* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · kube1244 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kgf